SciPost News

1000th Publication at SciPost

17 September 2021 

SciPost, the innovative scientist-led diamond open access publishing portal, is delighted to announce it has published its 1000th article this week. The paper by Barry M. Dillon, Tilman Plehn, Christof Sauer and Peter Sorrenson, entitled “Better Latent Spaces for Better Autoencoders”, was published in SciPost Physics.

SciPost's mission is to develop a genuinely open access publication system, community-led, without subscription paywalls or publication costs for authors. SciPost is strictly non-profit and is fully guided by open science principles.

Since the launch of its first journal in 2016, SciPost Physics, SciPost has been embraced by the research and wider academic communities. In the following years several new journals were launched, in other disciplines (chemistry, astronomy) or publishing different article types (lecture notes, proceedings).

SciPost is owned and run by the research community. Over 170 professional scientists manage the innovative peer-witnessed review process and they are regularly consulted about SciPost’s policies and processes. The SciPost model delivers freely, openly, globally and perpetually accessible science, financially supported by over 60 universities, libraries and funding agencies around the world. These organisations recognise the benefits of this model.

We want to thank our authors, readers, referees, Fellows of the Editorial Colleges, Advisors, sponsors and supporters for contributing to SciPost’s success. We look forward to expanding our open science services, further empowering the research community to implement genuinely open scientific publishing.

PSI becomes a SciPost Sponsor

25 August 2021 

We are pleased to welcome the Paul Scherrer Institute Laboratory for Particle Physics as our latest Sponsor! Many thanks to this institution and its local scientists for supporting our efforts. This sponsorship will help sustain our services to the academic community (see https://scipost.org/finances/business_model/ for a rundown on our business model) and facilitate our continuing expansion.

Imperial College London becomes a SciPost Sponsor

23 August 2021 

We are pleased to welcome Imperial College London as our latest Sponsor! Many thanks to this institution and its local scientists for supporting our efforts. This sponsorship will help sustain our services to the academic community (see https://scipost.org/finances/business_model/ for a rundown on our business model) and facilitate our continuing expansion.

The University of Oxford becomes a SciPost Sponsor

20 July 2021 

We are pleased to welcome the University of Oxford as our latest Sponsor! Many thanks to this institution and its local scientists for supporting our efforts. This sponsorship will help sustain our services to the academic community (see https://scipost.org/finances/business_model/ for a rundown on our business model) and facilitate our continuing expansion.

Stanford University supporting SciPost

21 June 2021 

SciPost is thrilled to welcome Stanford University to our growing list of supporting institutions. In November 2020 Stanford University has adopted an ambitious Open Access policy and we are pleased Stanford University has decided our open science activities are worth supporting. We are encouraged to see the first American sponsors joining our efforts to establish genuine open science practices. SciPost is in touch with most leading universities in the USA and we are pleased by the positive feedback. With more global support we will continue to offer scientists from around the world a platform to publish their work freely.

SciPost receives grant from Diamond Open Access Fund of the University of Amsterdam

15 June 2021 

SciPost is delighted and grateful for receiving Euro 26.461 from the Diamond Open Access Fund of the University of Amsterdam. This grant will allow us to further develop SciPost’s web based infrastructure and expand its publishing activities into other disciplines. The University of Amsterdam recognises that diamond open access journals contribute significantly towards independent, non-profit and for-scientists-by-scientists publishing practices, and that such initiatives need support from universities. The University of Amsterdam is committed to a full open access transition and the DOAF is one of their programs to support these developments.

The IAS becomes a SciPost Sponsor

9 June 2021 

We are pleased to welcome the Institute for Advanced Study as our latest Sponsor! Many thanks to this institution and its local scientists for supporting our efforts. This sponsorship will help sustain our services to the academic community (see https://scipost.org/finances/business_model/ for a rundown on our business model) and facilitate our continuing expansion.

SUB Hamburg becomes a SciPost Sponsor

19 May 2021 

We are pleased to welcome the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg (Hamburg State and University Library) as our latest Sponsor! Many thanks to this institution for supporting our efforts. This sponsorship will help sustain our services to the academic community (see https://scipost.org/finances/business_model/ for a rundown on our business model) and facilitate our continuing expansion.

TU Berlin becomes a SciPost Sponsor

6 May 2021 

We are pleased to welcome TU Berlin as our latest Sponsor! Many thanks to this institution for supporting our efforts. This sponsorship will help sustain our services to the academic community (see https://scipost.org/finances/business_model/ for a rundown on our business model) and facilitate our continuing expansion.

New submission system

3 May 2021 

SciPost has refurbished its submission system. The new interface makes it even easier to submit a manuscript to our different journals. As we are expanding our activities into more research fields, this update also includes integration with pre-print servers such as ChemRxiv, TechRxiv, Advance and SocArXiv.